On September 20, 2024, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin expressed his gratitude to John Marshall, the late British archaeologist who headed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) when Daya Ram ...

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The Iron Age, when the discovery of iron smelting technology helped revolutionise agriculture, war and construction, is considered to have begun around 1,400 BCE - 1,500 BCE in India ...

On September 20, 1924, archaeologist John Marshall announced the discovery of the Indus Valley Civilisation through excavations at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. Many years later, scholars Iravatham ...

Chief Minister MK Stalin made a fervent plea to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to allow him ...

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Come to think of it even the early Aryan movement eastwards from the west ... As they swept eastwards they came across the Dravidian-origin people, who were darker in skin-colour.

Ruling out Aryan authorship of the civilisation, he hastened to add that this did not automatically make it Dravidian. Yet, “there is substantial linguistic evidence favouring the Dravidian ...

He emphasised the Dravidian roots of the Indus Valley and ... Additionally, he noted the absence of horses, a hallmark of Aryan civilisation, in the Indus Valley. The worship of a mother deity ...

Stalin added: “His argument that Indus Valley Civilisation predated Aryan Civilisation and the language spoken in the Indus Valley could be Dravidian has been strengthened further.” ...